How Do You Overcome The Terror Of Your Art Being Known?

How do you overcome the terror of your art being known?

Knowing that I am unknown.

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10 months ago

watch foreign movies without turning the subtitles on.
turn the volume up.

- L. V.

Jose Clemente Orosco, Detail of The Bedroom (c. 1910)

fill your room with conversation
you aren’t a part of.

- L. V.

listen. you’re a ghost now.
listen. until you begin to have dreams of letting people into your life again.
listen. until you desire to be a part of someone else’s life again.

- L. V.

L. V., 24th July '14

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6 months ago

Landscape under a Stormy Sky (detail)
Vincent van Gogh, 1888

All I have are apologies for you at this point,

I want your rage—hand me your hurricanes.

L. V., i found this poem whilst we talked about van gogh with wine in our bloated bellies

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11 months ago

Bookshelves with Music Writings (detail)
Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1730

that i can never bring myself to start reading

L. V., i found this poem in your honeysuckle heart

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7 months ago

- film still from "A Very Long Engagement" (2004) with caption translated to English: "I have some bad news"
- words by L. V.: "you can only hope that there is a god and that he is vengeful"

L. V., just another almost haiku

[thoughts you had after he broke your heart: pt. 1]

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11 months ago

- Il y en a toujours un autre (detail) by Marcus Stone, 1882
- "i was so nervous meeting you." -L. V.

- Il y en a toujours un autre (detail) by Marcus Stone, 1882
- "and i guess that’s when i knew." -L. V.

L. V., i found this poem when i couldn't look at you

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9 months ago

Juliet (Detail)
John William Waterhouse, 1898

You find a vial of Juliet’s poison under the kitchen sink.

L. V., i found this poem in the jaws of a bear trap

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7 months ago

Detail of "Sower at Sunset" (1888)
by van Gogh

All at once, I was Icarus and I was the moth.
I flew too close to the bright yellow light.
Unlike Icarus, unlike the moth, unfortunately,
I survived.
- L. V.

L. V., i found this poem at the hands of a stranger

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6 months ago

my granddad draping fairy lights around the christmas tree

Detail of "Christmas Tree in the Hall of Kilo Mansion"
Magnus Enckell (c. 1919)

two little girls jumping up and down for chocolate doughnuts behind glass

bloody mouths from trying and failing to suppress laughter

cool evening air ruffling the hem of little black dresses

november was the month i least wished to die

L. V., i found this poem in a women's magazine at the waiting room

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11 months ago

thanks for the poem you wrote me 🥰

Thanks for sharing your story with me <3

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7 months ago

- film still from Wuthering Heights (2011)
- "What goes on in my head and in my heart feels less like ghosts / and more like blood and bones when I write them down. / I feel more real, more human when I write." -L. V.

L. V., and this is how i bury you

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